How Kingston is built
- Before 1961 24%
- 1961–1990 44%
- 1991–2000 11%
- 2001 or later 21%
Getting your usage history in Kingston
Most of Kingston is served by Kingston Hydro / Hydro One for electricity and Utilities Kingston / Enbridge Gas for natural gas.
- Kingston Hydro: Utilities Kingston Green Button portal (validate with a recent bill), then Download My Data: up to 2 years of electricity, gas, water and wastewater usage (XML). The MyUtilities account has a combined bill. Link
- Hydro One: myAccount, then Green Button Download My Data: up to 24 months of billing, consumption and transaction data (XML). Link
What the analysis shows
Kingston gets about 3,935 heating degree-days a year, a measure of how much heating its climate needs, and its winter design temperature, the cold day heating systems are sized for, is −21.8°C. Those figures come from the climate data for Trenton, the closest comparable location in that data set (82 km away) in HOT2000, the home-energy software Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) gives energy advisors. Weather-normalizing your bills against those degree-days separates heating from baseload (lights, appliances, hot water), so you can see how much of the bill a heating upgrade can actually touch, and compare a mild year with a harsh one fairly.
In Kingston, summer air conditioning also shows up on the electricity bill: compare your July and August use with a spring month to see roughly what cooling costs, and how much a heat pump or better attic insulation could take off it.
NRCan-licensed service organizations serving Kingston
A service organization is a company that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) licenses to deliver EnerGuide evaluations; its registered energy advisors do the home visit. Bring 12 months of bills to any of these organizations' evaluations; the advisor's model uses them as the baseline for projected savings.
Only assessments from the seven HRSP-approved organizations qualify for the $600 Home Renovation Savings rebate and its assessment-path upgrade rebates; each listing below says whether it's one of them.
- All Season Inspection HRSP-approved: No Profile
- AmeriSpec HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- Clean Energy Solutions HRSP-approved: No
- Eco Advantage Energy Advisors HRSP-approved: No
- Ecostep Energy Services HRSP-approved: No
- Energy Werx HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- Enerhold Engineering Solutions HRSP-approved: No
- EnerSolution HRSP-approved: No Profile
- EnviroCentre HRSP-approved: No
- Green Canada Home Advisors HRSP-approved: No Profile
- Green Think HRSP-approved: No
- Greenbrain HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- Homesol Building Solutions HRSP-approved: No
- Nadeau Energy Solutions HRSP-approved: No Non-profit network Profile
- The Energuy HRSP-approved: Yes Profile
- ecoPlus Services HRSP-approved: No
- Sensible Home Inspections HRSP-approved: No
- Verdatech Energy Management and Consulting HRSP-approved: No
Programs in Kingston
Energy bill analysis in Kingston: common questions
How do I download my energy usage in Kingston?
Kingston Hydro: Utilities Kingston Green Button portal (validate with a recent bill), then Download My Data: up to 2 years of electricity, gas, water and wastewater usage (XML). The MyUtilities account has a combined bill. Link Hydro One: myAccount, then Green Button Download My Data: up to 24 months of billing, consumption and transaction data (XML). Link
What is Green Button?
A standard format for downloading your own energy data. Ontario electricity utilities have been required to offer Green Button Download My Data since November 1, 2023.
Why weather-normalize bills?
A cold winter raises heating bills even if nothing about the house changed, and a hot summer raises cooling bills. Normalizing to degree-days lets you compare years fairly and measure real savings.